Sami Peretz
Analysis Netanyahu's One-time Cash Grant Doesn’t Really Address Coronavirus Crisis
It’s a populist measure when Israel should be thinking about giving regular basic income to the neediest
Analysis If Coronavirus Doesn’t Kill Us, What About an Economic Collapse?
What’s worse, the illness or the cure? What’s going to kill more people: the coronavirus or a financial crisis? We’re about to find out
Business, Unions Anxious About Economy After Coronavirus Quarantine Order
Treasury sees quarantines, drop in air cargo costing billions of shekels
Analysis Ex-Jerusalem Mayor Almost Became Finance Minister. But Then Netanyahu Got Cold Feet
Barkat was so close, but then the PM settled on nominating him in the future, maybe
Analysis Holy Cow, Israel and the Palestinians Have Gotten Into a Lose-lose Trade War
The PA’s ban on imports of Israeli calves triggered Defense Minister Bennett to hit back with his own boycott
Central Bank Chief: ‘Biggest Price of Three Elections Is the Decisions Being Postponed’
'At a time when the business cycle is healthy, at a time when the economy is running smoothly, and the labor market is tight, we’re not advancing,' says Amir Yaron
Opinion The Bibi Netanyahu Guide to Survival
If they’ve found you stealing an elephant, say it’s a mouse and that it’s permitted to take mice from friends. Did you order expensive gourmet meals? Say it was TV dinners
Analysis Does Automation Mean You Should Steer Your Kid Into a Stand-up Comedy Career?
If the job market were only about computers and machinery, the answer would be yes. But lots of other factors are at play
Analysis How Labor Strikes Became History, and May Become Our Future
Globalization, technology weakened unions, a growing economy caused strike days to plunge 90% in the last decade
Will Israel Start Taxing Workplace Parking Spaces?
The idea has been examined over the past decade and raised by the Green Tax Committee as one way to reduce the number of cars coming into Israel’s main urban areas
Analysis Netanyahu, the Enemy of Competition
The man who portrayed every one of his moves in the media market as having been intended to increase competition in fact acted against competition
Analysis Who Will Cover the Cost of the Budget Crunch? Not Israel’s Biggest Firms
The government needs to close a yawning fiscal gap, but it’s loath to tinker with the corporate tax rate at a time when Trump has cut the U.S. rate
Palestinian Meat Boycott Leaves Israeli Farmers in the Red
Surprise ban saddles industry with big losses, spurs call for government to act
Analysis In Israel, Industry Is a Thing of the Past
Services are the economy's engine, and they don’t need a weak shekel
Analysis Israel’s Secret Japanese Investor
The Finance Ministry isn’t saying who bought its $140m bond placement